Search Details

Word: sloping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Selective attendance is a slippery slope, and one absence makes the next one all the easier. I began to believe that my time, whether it was spent sleeping or eating (or at The Crimson), was more important than going to class. Some semesters I didn't even bother buying notebooks so I wouldn't get stuck with 60 blank sheets in an 80-page spiral-bound at the end of the term. But somehow I managed to get by, and even perform reasonably well, in my academic work...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Playing Hooky | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

With the life of its sponsoring school on the downward slope, the No. 8 Radcliffe heavyweight crew put that fact behind it Saturday to win one for the 'Cliffer...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Heavies Top Yale; No. 2 Men's Lights Fall | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

David B. Orr '01, a spectator at last night'smeeting, said legislation that goes againstHarvard's non-discrimination policies, howeverindirectly, could cause a slippery slope...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Endorses Return of ROTC | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...stars: Lu Lu, now 17, an elfin charmer whom Chen found studying English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power but to choose her own grim fate, is a worthy cinematic sister to Mouchette, Robert Bresson's great document of adolescent despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan of Art | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next